Boxing, fencing, marathon: the protest of biological sports against transgender athletes in female tournaments is growing. The Angela Carini case and the anger of Navratilova light up the debate.
The most angry are women, the real ones, who contest the “presumed”. The most sensational case concerned Angela Carini, silver medal at the 2019 world boxing championships. At the Paris Olympics the champion abandoned the meeting in which he was fighting against Algerian Imane Khelif, criticizing its admission to the Welter weight tournament.
The opponent previously had been excluded, by decision of the International Boxing Associationas the results of the medical tests did not respect access to female categories. Then, surprisingly, Khelif had been readmitted by the Olympic Committee, without however the reasons why previously had not been considered in compliance with the rules were made known. The result was a controversy over the sexual identity of the Algerian boxer who, in fact, although he has never been declared a trans, had seeds masculine.
Thus, if first the participation of athletes/athletes in women reserved for women was submessingly criticizedthen it was a crescendo. A few weeks ago, at the University of Maryland, the screenwriter Stephanie Turner refused to cross the foil with Redmond Sullivan. “I am a woman and this is a female tournament,” he said kneeling on the blue carpet. “I will not pull fencing with this person.” At the beginning, the opponent Transgender seemed not to understand why Turner had risen the mask. “He asked me if I wasn’t doing well, he didn’t understand what had happened. I replied that I was sorry, that I respected him, but I didn’t consider competing. He told me that as regulation he had every right to be there, but he did not make me change my mind. ”
After all, what is there to understand? Up to a year earlier Sullivan played tournaments between men and it was enough that he declared that he was in transition to be able to participate in those reserved for women. In discussion there are no sexual tendencies, the fact that someone feels man in a body of woman or female in a male one. Nor are we in front of a movement that aims to undergo care to change sex. Simply, it is a question of establishing who is a woman and who is a man, with the consequences, in sport as in everyday life (hospitalizations, access to services) that derive from it.
Martina Navratilova, a tennis legend now retired but also icon of the homosexual world, On social media he posted the images of the Turner kneeling in front of Sullivan, declaring himself angry. But not with the screenwriter who refused to fight, but with the American Federation that had allowed the meeting. “There is still someone who thinks this is right? I’m furious, be ashamed. ” La Navratilova (18 career Slam and 357 titles won, never none like her), a few days after the Turner case, she returned to the subject, attacking the transgender athlete Robert “Riya” Young for participating, in the female category, in the Boston marathon. «This man knows he has beat. And I’m not here to attend this ».
Previously, the champion had lashed out against the participation of another transgender in a tournament in Wyoming: “Female tennis is not for failed male athletes, any age have.” As is evident, it is not about homophobia and not even transphobia, but a reaction to years of LGBT indoctrination, which led us to deny reality, to ignore that there are only two sexes: the male and the female one, inventing others at will and considering women the men who have chosen a transition. A surprise, a sentence of the English Supreme Court urged by the feminist movement supported by JK Rowling, The writer who created the Wizard Harry Potter, put things back in place, deleting a Scottish law: a trans is not a woman and therefore cannot enjoy the treatment and protection services reserved for female people. An obvious thing, but that evidently much obvious is not, given that a pronouncement of the highest judges has served. And since even today, in sport, women can be declared and competing in female competitions, winning and accumulating wealth, and then returning, as Martina Navratilova wrote, to have children as a man.
